THE

DIVINE DRAMA

OF

HISTORY AND CIVILISATION.

BY THE

REV. JAMES SMITH, M.A.

LONDON:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.

1854.

THENEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1897.

II. Showing the Providential Character and

Fivefold aspect of the ordinary Drama.

III. Illustrating the Scenical Harmony of a

Drama and the Special Characteristics of

its Five Parts.

IV. Scenery and Dramatis Personæ of the Divine

Drama.

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THE PENTALOGUE; OR, THE DIVINE DRAMA

OF WESTERN CIVILISATION.

THE MEDITERRANEAN MISSIONS: being a Trilogue, con-

sisting of the Hebrew, Greek, and Roman Missions

-which are confined to the Mediterranean world in

a geographical sense and-until modern times, when

the Trilogue is renewed and enlarged - confined

within analogous narrow limits in every other sense.

The Hebrew mission is unitary and monotheistic-

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absolute and illiberal. The Greek is divisional, poly-
theistic, and liberal. The Roman first resembles the
Greek in character, but at last it closes the history
of the olden times by taking possession of the whole
Mediterranean world-first territorially, philosophi-
cally and classically taking possession of Greece,
and then adopting the new or Christian form of the
Hebrew mission, and reconciling the three apparently
opposite missions by a new collective unitary mission
of its own, with which it begins a new trilogue in
the Spiritual Empire of the Middle Ages. The
Roman Unity is distinguished from that of the Jews
by its tri-unity, and also its multitudinous lesser
canonised divinities; and though each unity is ex-
clusively male, there is a growing tendency in the
Roman Mission to deify the Feminine Principle in
the worship of the Sponsa Dei.